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From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
To: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com>
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Subject: Re: Scripting question...
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> I have a set of directories that contain radius log files from the
> last month.  Each log file is named the same thing but the
> directories they reside in are date stamped.  I want to write a
> script that searches the directories, finds files named ³detail²,
> and cats the detail files into one large combined file.

I haven't tested this, but...

  $ ( find /some/dir -type f -name detail | xargs cat ) >target-file

Lucas

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